Chaos by James Gleick
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a l ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
'Brilliant' GuardianWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
Green Murder (PB) by Ian Plimer
$44.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don’t fit the narrative have been ignored by IPCC, COP and self-interested scientists paid by taxpayers. A huge subsidised industry of intermittent unreliable wind and solar electricity has ...Show more
Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia by Danielle Clode
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Museum Victoria Nature Ser.
Prehistoric Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon optatum roamed - this rhinoceros-sized diprotodon was probably the largest marsupial ever t ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Chemistry in the Marketplace by Ben Selinger; Russell Barrow
$69.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Chemicals are everywhere. Many are natural and safe, others synthetic and dangerous. Or is it the other way around? Walking through the supermarket, you might ask yourself: should I be eating organic food? Is that anti-wrinkle cream a gimmick? Is it worth buying BPA-free plastics? This sixth edition of ...Show more
Nature's Giants - The Biology and Evolution of the World`s Largest Lifeforms by Graeme Ruxton; Norman Owen-Smith
$65.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the science behind the awe-inspiring giants of past and present The colossal plants and animals of our world--dinosaurs, whales, and even trees--are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that ...Show more
The Living Forest : A Visual Journey into the Heart of the Woods by Joan Robert; Maloof Llewellyn
$56.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"With precise, stunning photographs and a distinctly literary narrative that tells the story of the forest ecosystem along the way, The Living Forest is an invitation to join in the eloquence of seeing." --Sierra Magazine From the leaves and branches of the canopy to the roots and soil of the understo ...Show more